What kind of communities would you like to see either created or become more active on Lemmy?

A bit clichê, but all of them
- ....well.... maybe not all of them....
- People really need to start posting more. You can do scheduled posts so it's easy work

The main thing I miss from reddit is communities for specific games. It was nice that, whenever I started playing some game, there would be a subreddit for it where I could get advise and see what other people were doing with the game. There are very few on Lemmy. It's just too snall for that.
- Ooh yeah I learned so much from the Pokémon scarlet violet subreddit.

Niche interests. Unfortunately Lemmy doesn't have enough of a population to get enough people/content for specific niches. Some things I specifically followed on Reddit were: fight stick controllers, Street Fighter 6, Wildrift game, dad/parenting communities, SBC gaming. On Lemmy there either isn't any activity at all for these, or too little to have regular content.

TBH I think it needs more mods/participants in existing communities before it starts sharding into more.
In other words, it’s the same problem I observe in many software dev communities: instead of building a new wheel, it’d be better to contribute to existing ones (and facilitate that discovery for others).
And, on that note, I think Lemmy needs better default algorithms to surface them.
- I agree. I mod 3 and the reality is you've got to create the content. Some mods don't do that
  
  I did that in the journaling community I mod. During 6 months or so I posted almost daily, then weekly content. I had to put it on hold for the last few months. But I had very little feedback all that time. After I put in on hold, at first there was no activity going on at all. Then, a few posts were created, and other members commented. There is still not much going on but it was nice to see nonetheless. Hope to see more :)
  The real odd thing for me is that we gained a lot of new members (when I relaunched the community, there was probably less than 200 members, we're more than 900 today), and still almost no one is posting. Not sure why.

!peertube@lemmy.world
It's doing well but I would love to see more videos without the need for YouTube.

There is a TIFU community and nobody posts there
Seems like people on Lemmy are too competent for it :(
- All of those kinds of communities, where people tell anecdotes about their lives, turned into creative writing excerises for wannabe authors long before we had to worry about AI slop. TIFU, AmITheAsshole, RelationshipAdvice, etc. were all getting pretty derivative and sensational for clicks long before the exodus. Now they're all either that or illiterate attention seekers showing off the results of their latest LLM prompts. I liked those stories too, but I don't want anything to do with any of those communities anymore. It all just turned into a training ground for LLMs generating engagement. YouTube still tries to force those dumb AI story voiceover videos to me constantly. We used to joke that "nothing ever happens", but everyday that sentiment feels a little less cynical and a little more real.
  
  I see your point, but it doesn't have to be that way. In fact what I've seen here wasn't long creative writing essays, rather, photos with a very short description. Which is what I'm after.
  People still share long posts under all sorts of contexts too, and LLMs train on everything. If you are holding on to prevent LLMs training then you might as well not post anywhere at all
- I'm more of a I've been fucking up for weeks/months/years kind of person. Problems I gave cultivated when it should have been obvious they were coming

We have enough memes and politics and definitely US politics for three lifetimes.
Here's a bunch that I enjoyed, or wish for, or just found by browsing the community list:
!europe@feddit.org and local country subs in English
!historymemes@lemmy.world
!sauna@suppo.fi
!assholedesign@lemmy.world
!balconygardening@slrpnk.net
!gameart@sopuli.xyz
!pkd@lemmy.world - Included mostly because I had a chuckle from the name, but I'd be interested for real too
- Wow! Thank you, @Sergio!
  
  Hello,
  Could you please add !casualconversation@piefed.social to that list?

Solarpunk and anything that is systems-minded and constructive.

I generally don't miss Reddit, but I do miss all the art subs. All the "imaginary" subs. ImaginaryBattlefields. ImaginaryCastles. Etc etc. 80s fantasy art subs. I like having a fair amount of art in my feeds as I scroll and I don't really get that with Lemmy. I am too lazy and distracted to create and moderate these subs myself.
- !imaginary@reddthat.com

I've been posting things I find interesting to !discuss@discuss.online. I'm trying to grow it as a community that can have conversations about a broad range of interesting topics, without having to subscribe to a bunch of narrowly-focused communities. Think something like Hacker News or lobste.rs, but without the tech bro mindset.
- Subbed, I'll try to make sure I respond/pay attention or post something once I figure out the vibe of what is supposed to be there.
  
  Thanks, that would be great! And even if you don't post anything, comments are always appreciated

Cast iron
Hot sauce recipes
Conspiracy weirdness, ghosts and shit
...maybe not in that order.
- Ah a fellow cast iron enthusiast
  
  See? You and me need a Lemmy community.

Don't know how to link a community but I'd like more people posting on artshare and other art comms.
Also on the soulslike community :D
Edited to add some links :
!artshare@lemmy.world
!digitalart@lemmy.world
!eurographicnovels@piefed.social
!soulslike@lemmy.zip
- You can link a community by typing ! and then the community name right after it, without spaces. I also like checking out the art communities.
  
  Got it, thanks!

I really miss the highstrangeness community, imo it desperately needs a replacement.
I need intelligent UAP discussion again dammit!
- Hard agree. Lemmy could do with a touch of woo.

I'd love to see the canning one be more active! Gardening has been more active than I thought it would be.

Data hoarding. !datahoarder@lemmy.ml exists but there isn't much activity.

This place is pretty neat and I’d like to see it become more active. If there’s enough demand for a community about a topic I know a fair bit about, I might just start it, or at least hope to encourage others to do the same :)
- If Fedibridge becomes more active, it could help fuel more users and the rest will follow
  
  By FediBridge, do you mean connecting different parts of the fediverse? Could you explain how it’s done?

I'd like to see at least one of the music theory communities take off. The subreddit had a lot going for it, but it was extremely toxic in some ways. I'd like to see a nicer version of it here.

I used to like reading the medium - long stories on the malicious complience subreddit. !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world just never really took off here.

I'll be that guy:
The NSFW communities. So far if I want to see anything new I'd still have to resort to reddit which also is becoming emptier by the minute, it'd be nice if we start moving those communities here

I was looking for some eyebleach earlier and was disappointed to see how quiet all of the eyebleach communities are.

Local ones, but that probably depends on way more users joining for it to be useful.

Philosophy or at least philosophy memes.
Also, more signposting and less doom. All of my algorithms are so depressing already.
- You just need a big blocklist. I wish it was easier to share/crowd source them

rpg ones both mmo and pnp. I wish the communities were here. I also wish orgs would run their own domains for their members. like the world science fiction society or local makerspaces.
- What about !rpg@ttrpg.network which isn't the most active but exists, feel free to post content there.
  And pretty sure there is a video game community too
  
  Well as you say they are not active which is the part of the OP question "or become more active". No matter how active I am on them it will not replace a whole community being based someplace. Its like star trek online was on reddit but most champions online activity is in steam. It comes down to key individuals who are massively into the thing who create the guides and content basically. I hung out at these places but I was not a driver. Im 100% I would have never put in the time to figure out the torpedo math, that is for sure.
- I've tried to post a few things in the TTRPG communities and they rarely get many comments. It's disheartening.
  
  yeah I just a bit ago did a post that was sorta a life check. It really surprises me as I always thought of the communities as heavily geek which I would think would appeal to being here. I would expect by the time I came to something like this subjects like that would be well represented.

Damn the quality of illustrations in https://lemmy.ml/c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works is superb.
Call out to !watercolor@lemmy.ml for those into their coloured waters.

about Love2d - lua framework for creating games

I wish the following were more active:
!truecomics@midwest.social
!streetwear@lemmy.world
!vintageads@sh.itjust.works
!catastrophicfailure@lemmy.world
if anyone's looking for a community to start posting to, I encourage them to give one of those a shot.

I wish people would crosspost more or link to other related communities.
- I think this doesn't happen as often because of the smaller population. Cross posting lead to mods deleting posts because you would end up with an article showing 3 times in the first 20 posts on active or such. If/when growth in the fedeverse gets large enough I think we'll see it more

A big chunk of my time on reddit was just chatting with sports fans in local team subs during games and in league wide subs about current events.

Wouldn't mind seeing more activity in sysadmin because it is the only subreddit I use.

I would like to see a subLemmy about making cheese and yogurt
- They’re called “communities” on Lemmy, no need to bring reddit-speak with us over here
  
  Doesn't "subforum" predate Reddit?

A whowouldwin community.
Battleboarding communities draw a lot of engagement and help retain new users among the younger demographics.

Communities related to my local city. On Reddit it’s how I found out about some events and local issues.

A while ago I tried to look for something similar to Reddit's Tip of My Tongue/Joystick (looking for media/games you have vague memories of and don't know the title), but didn't seem to find one. And I suspect it's a bit niche thing.
- !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world
  !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com

I just want the user base to grow enough to support small niche communities.
That was Reddit at its best and Lemmy just doesn’t have the user base to support it yet

JapanFinance, RideItJapan, JapanLife/JapanResidents -- the problem is, without the knowledge of people who have lived here for a long time, it's not that useful if created. The vast amount of experience of people with starting a business, dealing with visa stuff, dealing with legal stuff, etc. is what makes those reddit communities valuable. Some of us tried to get people to move, some created similar communities, but people didn't really move.

There’s a subreddit for my town but I don’t think there’s enough of us on Lemmy to keep it active.

@razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de !asklemmy@lemmy.world
In my opinion, two very specific subjects that highly resonate with me:
Cryptology (as in the study of ciphers) and Steganography: a community intended for people to share puzzles, novel ciphers (Rcszqar pg s mpbra voqjdg), techniques and examples of existing/novel arts with hidden messages (e.g. the BACH motif behind some classical music), algorithms (preferably code golf), math formulas and theorems, etc.
Occult, Esoteric and Left-hand path spiritualities, preferably focused on personal spirituality: a community intended for people who have their own individual paths/beliefs (or are willing to build one for themselves) so they can share concepts, rituales, books/grimoires and even items among them. By LHP and esoteric, some examples are (but not limited to) Lilithism and Luciferianism, Hermeticism, Thelema, Quimbanda, Gnosticism, Wicca, Neo-Hellenism, Goëtia, Theistic Satanism, among other belief systems and religions (the latter kind, "religions", preferably focused on building individual paths that can consider each one's contexts and lives and worldviews, with the Masters/Leaders being the deities and entities themselves who are being revered/worshiped).

More "curated" communities (like CuratedTumblr) that have higher submission standards. One of my biggest gripes with Lemmy in recent months is the amount of low effort "updoots to the left" memes and commonly reposted material.

c/Mexico... But seeing how most of the "news" from my country in the fediverse are government propaganda (and people get mad when it gets pointed out), I could stay on r/Mexico and it would be the same.
Also a general lack of latinamerican content.
Edit: and I mean fully in spanish.

!fedigrow@lemmy.zip for people wanting to make communities more active

Emulation and piracy.
- !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is fairly active by Lemmy standards!

We need more memes about US elections

I actually only found Lemmy because I was looking for another SA community online after my last one had toxic mods. Can't say for sure what it's like here but the SA comm here deserves more attention I feel like. Of course, I could probably post on there some more....
- South Africa? System Administration? Sturmabteilung? Sleep Apnea?

The kind of communities that hand out free sex, drugs, cash or scotch. I'm a simple man.

Communities focused on trolling, griefing, or bullying would be nice 🙂
- You can find reddit between the toilets and the manure store.